Description

This author’s purpose project is perfect for teaching and practicing author’s purpose with various texts. This skill is not as easy as it seems. With this resource, you can explain it, help students identify the look fors, practice with multiple texts, sort examples, and apply learning with real life examples. When the project is complete, students can refer to it with new reading.

HOW IS THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE PROJECT ORGANIZED?

This paper bag book project hits all of the teaching points for Author’s Purpose, and it can be used with small groups, as a work station, in interactive notebooks, or as an at home project. Students use the beginning pages to learn about each of the five author’s purposes. Then, they practice with multiple texts of the teacher’s choice. I suggest pulling a wide variety to ensure all five purposes are included. Other activities include a sorting activity and author’s purpose in friendly letters.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE PROJECT?

• Cover
• Author’s Purpose Explained (6 pages)
• Author’s Purpose with texts Flapbooks
• Author’s Purpose Sorting
• Friendly Letters for a variety of purposes
• Summarizing My Learning
• Grading Rubric

The final book is 12 pages while the product is 18.

OTHER COMPREHENSION FOCUSED PAPER BAG BOOK PROJECTS:

• Exploring Theme
• Fact and Opinion? Can You Decide?
• Narrative Elements
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Making Inferences
• Cause and Effect Relationships
• Drawing Conclusions
• Point of View
• Summarizing
• Main Idea
• Characterization
• Nonfiction Text Features

GET THEM ALL IN THE PAPER BAG BOOK BUNDLE:

Paper Bag Book Bundle for Reading Comprehension

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